statute law
English
Noun
statute law (plural statute laws)
- (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch.
- (law, uncountable) The complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulation.
Synonyms
- (the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction) statutory law
Translations
a law enacted by a legislative body
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complete corpus of legislatively-enacted laws
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